Today Bing Fund and Sonar announced that Bing Fund has reached across this great land of ours to invite Sonar into its portfolio of startups . And they made at least part of their announcement via Vine . We think it really may be the first ever press...

Speek.com, a platform for easy conference calls , started as a way to permanently rid the world of PINs and elevator music. As corporate employees, founders Danny Boice and John Bracken were fed up with how stale business communication was, and set out...

Last night, we had about 100 people come by the Microsoft BizSpark Lab to talk about Using Community and Design to Build a Business Model . That link takes you to a livestream archive that I will embed below.
From left to right: Michael Staton,...

In the past decade, we have witnessed a steady transition of content and media from our physical world to the online digital one with the most marked transformation happening in books and music. But in the publishing world, there has been a radically...

The games app market is extremely competitive, so finding new ways to keep players captivated is the big challenge facing developers right now. Finnish-based start-up Tuliotus has achieved just that, by introducing an exciting new approach to game-play...

Why bring one app to market when you can launch 10, 20, even 30? That is the ethos of a dynamic team of young Finnish developers who go by the wonderful name of the Magnificent Eight . As the name might suggest, this is an award-winning team of eight...

Through our partnership with TechCocktail , we have three pieces of advice for entrepreneurs building their own companies.
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Alex Chang of One Technologies and his simple advice for entrepreneurs .
Since 2000, Alex has amassed considerable...

We are running a full hour live interview on LiveStream with Daniel Cowen, founder of local conversation startup Echoer, about his choice to use Elance to help build his company. Join us February 14, 2013 at 4pm Pacific for the first in what will be a...

Could be wrong, but I believe investors and startup people are in what you call a deployment period. We are searching out new ways to finance.
This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community Manager and Social Strategist of the Microsoft BizSpark...

We asked Jessica Alter , co-founder and Chief Connector of Founder Dating , to tell us what has happened to Founder Dating since she started it a couple of years ago. And we thought we would run this at the same time as we announced that we are working...

So, last night we had this perfect storm of pitch events, tech meetups, and a wild party in the Microsoft Technology Center. One of our partners, 500 Startups , held their Mexico Demo Day at our BizSpark Lab . It was full on startup day yesterday.
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Great opening launch by Cesar Salazar, who merged Mexican.vc with Dave McClure's 500 Startups, as he kicked off 500 Startups Mexican Demo Day .
12 startup founders gave their demos at our BizSpark Lab today, and here are a few shots that depict the...

Many of you have probably heard of the great things that Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo do with TechCocktail, the rapidly growing entrepreneur evenings that are spreading across the nation. We certainly noticed them. That's why we recently partnered up...

Mobi Weave was founded to create great User Experiences for Enterprise apps and with our 4.5 star rated BI app on the App Store, we were well on our way to fulfilling that mission. But talking to our customers, we did find some issues that are holding...

You can find dozens of sites out there that talk about the financial and operational logistics of building a startup. Does anyone really know the answer? Yes, there are technical things that a business needs to run. But most great businesses grew out...

Most students graduate facing the challenge of getting a job, but Chai Botta, the CEO of GameIn this isn’t a problem. He and his co-founders are already running their own successful start-up, with a fast-growing game in the Windows 8 store, even...